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Ghoulish Delight

11-14-2008 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 253707)

I've been putting off seeing this - thanks for the reminder. GD gets to blame you when he is forced to watch this.

Uh, I AM the one who recommended a book about typeface...

JWBear

11-14-2008 05:15 PM

Call me old fashioned, but I routinely use Times New Roman.

Alex	11-14-2008 05:25 PM

For regular writing/reading of large text I don't like serifs so the first thing I do when getting a new work computer is kill Times New Roman as the default font.

So long as it is relatively unadorned and sans serif I am fine. Which usually means Arial. Not out of any strong preference though, just better than the generally used alternatives.

Betty

11-14-2008 05:54 PM

As a plain font, I had a thing with calibri for awhile.

Maiandra is a nice happy simply font that has a little personality but isn't overly floofy.

Berlin Sans too.

I don't use those fonts to print up letters or documents though. More with signage, website headlines etc.

innerSpaceman

11-14-2008 05:58 PM

I use Arial as my default, but I hate the "unisex" quotation marks, like the ones I just used.

If I need quotation marks, I want proper ones and I'll switch to Times Roman as default.

Gemini Cricket

11-14-2008 06:08 PM

I like the way Courier New looks. It looks like a typewriter font.

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alphabassettgrrl

11-14-2008 06:52 PM

I like Arial or Century Gothic. Not fond of serifs.

Kevy Baby

11-14-2008 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket (Post 253735)

Adobe Palatino

Cadaverous Pallor

11-15-2008 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Betty (Post 253732)

As a plain font, I had a thing with calibri for awhile.

Maiandra is a nice happy simply font that has a little personality but isn't overly floofy.

We recently got the Office 07 upgrade at work and I dig Calibri as a default. I never liked Times at all.

I <3 EH! :D Awesome linkage.

bewitched

11-16-2008 05:59 AM

I've always liked Georgia.

Boring...but there it is.

I really like its name origin :D :

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The typeface is named after a tabloid headline titled "Alien heads found in Georgia."

I also quite like Verdana.

I could really get into the name origin aspect of fonts:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The name "Verdana" is based on a mix of verdant (something green, as in the Seattle area and the Evergreen state, Washington), and Ana (the name of Howlett's eldest daughter).

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